Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.
The former undersheriff of Costilla County has been charged with four criminal counts, including strangling and assaulting an inmate, the sheriff said.
A 43-year-old fugitive on the U.S. Marshals' 15 Most Wanted list allegedly faked his death off the coast of Alabama to avoid capture on 14 child sexual assault charges including...
Police investigating a three-vehicle crash in downtown Denver have closed Colfax Avenue in both directions at Speer Boulevard and southbound Speer Boulevard.
A woman whose son allegedly shot two Denver police officers last year is suing the city over the subsequent SWAT standoff that left her home in flames, saying the blaze...
Aurora police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed an adult pedestrian at the intersection of Peoria Street and 17th Avenue early Monday morning.
Denver's morning commute could become complicated by isolated snow showers Monday. Snow could start falling in isolated locations along the Front Range by 8 a.m., according to the National Weather...